Improvement in moth-proof paper from cedar wood



UNITED CHARLES D. BROWN, OF PORTLAND, MAINE.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. l94.96, dated September11, 1877; application filed October 28, 1876.

To all whom it may concern Be it known that I, CHARLES D. BROWN, ofPortland, in the county of Cumberland and State of Maine, have inventeda certain new and useful Improvement in Cedar Paper; and Ido herebydeclare that the following is a full, clear, and exact descriptionthereof, which will enable others skilled in the art to which itpertains to make and use the same.

The properties of cedar wood for preventin g the collection andpropagation of moth in certain kinds of goods and clothing are wellknown,- and the different forms and methods of using and applying thiswood to this purpose are also too familiar to need enumeration. I do nottherefore claim the application of codar to the purpose specified.

Paper-pulp is now made from various kinds of woods, vegetables, grasses,8210., and I do not therefore claim the production, by these well-knownprocesses, of pulp or paper from cedar wood.

My invention relates solely to the new artifrom cedar-bark; but this,like many other manufactures of paper from diiferent substances, has notthe same objectin view as my invention, does not and is not intended toretain the peculiar odor and property of the natural cedar, and is, Ibelieve, subjected to treatment tending to remove such property, itbeing used merely on account of its fibrous constitution.

For the purpose of producing my new article of manufacture the wood issimply reduced to pulp by submitting it to a grinding processforinstance, like that used in the Taft machine-and then made into sheetsof paper, retaining the color, odor, and taste of the fiber or dry pulp,and of the native wood itself.

My invention is the new article of manufacture described, made by any ofthe wellknown processes, but for the purposes set forth.

What I claim as my invention, and desire to secure by Letters Patent,is-

The new article of manufacture-that is to say, cedar paper, or papermade from cedar wood, as and for the purposes set forth.

In testimony that 1 claim the foregoing as my own I affiX my signaturein presence of two witnesses.

CHARLES D. BROWN.

Witnesses:

HERBERT G. Bnrccs, WM. HENRY ULIFFORD.

